[TriLUG] mostly OT: movies on the go?

[Francois Dion via TriLUG]

Dewey, sounds like something for project night...

As far as reliability and the Pi in an automotive environment, I've had one
in my "hackermobile" for 3 years, still working fine. It is used as a
server and print spooler (yeah, usually have a printer on board, although
my laser printer "died" so it is used in my office instead). I used a WDTV
for some years for the video aspect of things with an external usb HD. My
electrical system on the van is on a timer, so after the van is turned off,
the Pi has plenty of time to shutdown on its own (initially I did it with
bluetooth, detecting when I'd walk away from the van to start a shutdown -h
now).

I thought I had posted it in english somewhere, but at least you can look
at the pictures (it's in spanish) :)

http://raspberry-python.blogspot.com/2012/09/systema-embebido.html

I also have a backup camera and a secondary screen where a rear view mirror
would be (conversion van, there is no way to see through the rear windows
anyway) and can route any source to any screen.

Francois


On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Dewey Hylton via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

> thanks for the documentation. i have every intention of doing something
> like this in our family vehicle sometime in the future.
>
> ----- On Jul 20, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Triangle Linux Users Group General
> Discussion trilug at trilug.org wrote:
>
> For those still wanting to mess with an RPi: you can certainly do some
> things with it. First, you can always run the SD card in read-only mode:
>
> http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/7978/how-can-i-prevent-my-pis-sd-card-from-getting-corrupted-so-often
> .
> You can also set a few options, such as more frequent fsck, and having
> system logs written to RAM-only.
>
> Additionally, here's the harness I found before:
> http://mausberrycircuits.com/collections/car-power-supply-switches. There
> also appears to be a rather expensive, but complete project that someone
> made here: http://misc.ws/2014/06/17/in-car-raspberry-pi-media-player/
>
> Not suggesting anyone spend too much time on this, but wanted to document
> the research I did a while ago.
>
> Igor
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